How to make an amazing short film: a festival director’s top tips

Make a shorter, simpler film and you can focus your resources on fewer locations and set-ups, and spend more time on the sound design, edit and grade.

Short films are strange beasts. They have a uniquely unenviable position of being near no one’s first choice of entertainment, so in some ways must teach an audience how to experience them in their few minutes of runtime. They can feel genius and vital, or totally irrelevant.

Our little programming team has watched all of these films, and our community screener groups (a huge selection of farmers, nurses, teachers and bamboo flooring experts from the region who gather weekly to review shorts) have watched the best few hundred of those.

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